Thanks, will check them out! Railway empire 2 doesn’t look like something I’d like but I have 2 hours to try before refund and if you say it’s good, I’ll go check it out :)
With Railway it’s the typical anticipation of strategy games that gets you. Just one more expansion of your network, one more resource to connect to a town, one more logistical puzzle to solve. It’s way more intricate (in a good way) than just managing the budget and I’ve sunk hours and hours into some of those missions to figure them out.
I’m so happy to see your daughter stealing your Steam Deck (even if you’re not!) and enjoying some fun games. Have you tried Cassette Beasts? She might enjoy that, it’s my fav of the Pokemon clones!
Fan-made big box with a Civvie quote on the back… that’s the dream as an aspiring boomer shooter dev!
I’ve been playing Nine Sols on Steam Deck this week… getting my arse kicked and it’s making me kinda sad. I used to love difficult reflex challenge games like the From Software games, etc. But last year I was destroyed by a mystery virus and it did something to my brain. I’ve been feeling a lot better for the last few months and thought maybe I’ve finally recovered enough to play some hard games so I grabbed Nine Sols and yeah, I’m not quite there. But it seems like a really cool game! Urgh!
I’ve also been playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault which I grabbed in the GOG sale. Playing through on hard has been a blast (except the snipers, fuck those guys), and the early 2000s aesthetics are really nice… didn’t realise how much I missed this style as I usually go for 90s games when I’m feeling retro.
Also kind of breaks immersion when there’s tons of different enemies, but they never fight between themselves. Only when the player character shows up, they’re like, imma ruin this woman’s life.
Yeah, I’ve been replaying Golden Sun for the last week (finishing up achievements for RetroAchievements) and there are really frequent fights in the game, two steps and a fight, two steps and another fight, and the npcs are fine, and even seem to be traveling around without any problems, when I can’t even walk three damn centimeters without an encounter… it’s pissing me off.
Its a fun sandbox roguelike with an actually explorable world on the surface. One thing that is dumb is theres no moon on shared worlds. So you can’t do anything with the Essences you find. The Works is still accessible though and getting to hell itself is always a fun challenge.
I want to thank people who were talking about Blue Prince because I was able to recommend it to a friend who loves puzzles. she’s enjoying it a lot.
I’ve been doing stuff in both Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, but on the non-gacha front, I’ve started Disco Elysium. I haven’t gotten very far but I’m really enjoying it even if not knowing how bad I’m messing up makes me a bit anxious. I picked Inland Empire as my main skill(?) too.
otherwise, I’m planning on playing more Fields of Mistria, now that they’ve updated again. I love that game with a passion, and I can’t wait to see what more they add to it. I thought Stardew Valley was as good as it got, and while Fields of Mistria doesn’t have multiplayer (and that’s okay!) it ticks so many boxes for me, like for example, the shoujo laughs from Juniper spark so much joy. I don’t enjoy the mines in SDV, but in FoM, I definitely do!
Playing Ghosts of Tsushima on my Steam Deck. Having a blast. Don’t normally care for sword combat but I’m actually learning to parry and the different stances make for some aesthetic fights.
Something about it seems just so weirdly self-promotional, instead of “normal” engagement with the community. I never pay attention to usernames but I have noticed this kind of content from the guy on this community several times, and just checked his posts and it’s all YouTube promotion (although I admit the ones mentioning “Dani” might not be his, not 100% sure). No regular engagement with the community as just another gamer. I suspect that’s why the community does not seem to generally like these posts. It is why I certainly don’t. The vibes I get from the posts are way less “hey I am a game dev, I’d love some feedback on my game!” and more “SMASH that subscribe button” but from an English language learner who has not learned the tricks of clickbait titles and the ways people grow those channels, so instead we get these constant posts for their YouTube on Lemmy. Of course, my judgment could be off, I’m certainly not actually clicking the videos to confirm whether my suspicions are right or wrong. For all I know that video has a misleading title and is a tutorial on how to paint a ceiling.
However, it is on topic and I don’t make the rules, and there’s something to be said for unpopular stuff still being allowed. I’d personally want this gone as the self-promotion type of spam but hey, not my community, and I could have judged them wrong.
I haven’t had time to play as much the past couple of days, but when I do I am similarly entralled by Blue Prince. It’s going to be very hard for another game to pip it for game of the year for me I think.
It’s so full of mysteries, so full of intricacies, so full of interactions and puzzles within puzzles. The narrative and lore is great too. I really do love every single element of it. Even the basic gameplay of the roguelite portion is so well done that you are always just fiending for one more run, the dopamine rewards of drafting a satisfying house really just tickles your brain just right.
Seriously, if you haven’t already then go play it.
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